Two dozen volunteers helped spruce up the town during our Love Chandler Day event this past Saturday. More than 4 miles of road right of way was cleaned up, in addition to town-owned property on Hwy. 62 and Chandler's two parks.

About 35 bags of trash were collected, along with a few bulky items. Volunteers also weeded areas around the Chandler Community Center and weedeated along the highway in front of properties that were most in need.

Volunteers from two Chandler churches participated: Korean Church of Evansville and Faith Free Will Baptist Church; a few individual volunteers also helped out.

We thank all of our volunteers for your time and efforts! It was a hot and steamy day, and a lot of hard work; but, we got so much accomplished in just two hours! Thanks so much for helping us in our efforts to make Chandler a better community!

We would also like to thank Kemper's for allowing our volunteers to dump three bags in their dumpster, the Town of Chandler for taking off the trash we collected and allowing us the use of the parking lot for our headquarters, Chandler Utilities for providing gloves, trash bags and the dump truck, and the Chandler MS4 Storm Water Department for providing several safety vests for our volunteers to wear along roadways.

Meet us at the old Family Dollar store parking lot (401 E. Lincoln Avenue in Chandler) at 8 a.m. this Saturday and Be the Change in Chandler by helping clean up along the main corridor and side streets. Bring gloves, if you have them, and weedeaters (if you don't mind doing that work) and we'll organize everyone into groups. We'll have trash bags, bottled water, and some gloves. Please wear bright clothing for visibility; we have some vests, and the Chandler Police Department will help slow traffic down in work areas.​If you'd like to be a part of Love Chandler Day and cannot physically participate in the clean-up effort, we will need a few volunteers to hand out water, staff the staging area, and take photographs. Please feel free to contact us via email or through a message on Facebook if you have any questions.

Our LOVE Chandler Day is a day of service to our community, and we're inviting churches, organizations, and individuals who want to make a difference to join us for clean-up along our main corridors in town.

Chandler Celebration Days is a town-wide celebration and a long-standing event hosted by the Lions Club of Chandler. We were excited to join their efforts last year with our first Talent Show, and it was so successful that we had kids asking how to get signed up for this year before the other event concluded. Our registration information for this event will be posted later this week.

Chandler Fest is the best of two great events we held last year - enjoy a free movie and a concert, food, fun, and more!

The Chandler 8K was an existing event that was previously tied to the Celebration Days activities. Organizers decided to move the event this year in hopes of gaining more participation since the later date would allow Evansville half-marathoners the chance to enter without interfering with their training schedule. Proceeds from the 8K run and 1-mile walk will benefit our playground project, so we are excited to partner with Faith FWB Church to host this event.

CHANDLER, IN – About 25 adults, teens, and kids helped beautify the Chandler Town Park this past Sunday. Projects included picking up litter, pressure washing the playground equipment and picnic pavilion, painting picnic tables and the exterior of the recently-remodeled bathrooms, and pulling weeds from the flower bed planted at the entrance during last year’s Memorial Day Weekend Clean-up event.​Organizers, with the nonprofit organization 4 A Better Chandler, Inc., said the annual clean-up provides an opportunity for volunteers to help the town with maintenance and improvement projects while encouraging residents to invest their time and efforts toward making Chandler a better community for A Sidewalk Chalk Art Contest was held in conjunction with the clean-up, allowing kids to have a little fun and promoting a family-friendly environment for the event. Tastee Freeze donated free ice cream cone tokens as prizes for the children who participated in the contest.

The new sky blue color on the bathroom building will serve as a background for a future mural by Michael Smith of Orange Moon Art Studio. Smith intends to work with children from the community to paint the mural once additional security measures are taken. The Chandler Parks Board has been working on a plan to get additional lighting and security cameras installed at the park to help deter vandalism.

Volunteers provided the necessary paint, equipment, and supplies for the clean-up event.

4 A Better Chandler is currently fundraising for an inclusive playground project at the park, and has a free youth fishing tournament scheduled this Saturday from 8-10 a.m. Find more details here.

WarrickWatch, a news-alert organization that operates primarily on Facebook, also posted our press release and photos from the event on its Facebook page.

A huge thanks goes out to our volunteers and sponsors for this successful event! Find the press release and photos from the event below, and be sure to check out our Facebook page for more photos from the event.

Park gets new paint, plantings during first annual
Memorial Day Weekend Clean-up project

CHANDLER, IN – More than 30 residents came together to plant flowers, make repairs, pick up litter, and spruce up the Chandler Town Park with fresh paint this past Sunday. Volunteers also collected 30 pounds of plastic lids and caps for the Town’s recycling for benches program.

Girl Scout Troop 363, based in Chandler, served lemonade to volunteers and park visitors, and handed out bottled water. Troop leaders and parents helped other volunteers plant a flower bed at the park’s entrance and paint picnic tables.

Cubmaster John Fuquay with Pack 166, based in Chandler, helped repair several picnic tables that had missing or damaged seats and boards.

Volunteers also spruced up the basketball court with fresh paint on the goal posts and the installation of new basketball nets. Additionally, they painted the doors to the restrooms at the park.

“We were so proud of the volunteers who came out on a holiday weekend to give back to the community,” said Wendy Wary, president of 4 A Better Chandler, Inc., which organized the event. “There was even a young man who was at the park to play basketball who decided to join in the efforts; he picked up a paint brush and quickly went to work.”Kids were invited to participate in a Sidewalk Chalk Art Contest, and prizes were awarded for creativity, colorfulness, and overall design.The event was sponsored, in part, by donations from Robin’s Nest of Boonville, Contemporary Landscape Design of Chandler, and Escalade Sports of Evansville. Other improvements and supplies were paid for by the volunteers.

“It was such a huge success, we think this will become an annual Memorial Day weekend event,” said Wary. “One of our board members even suggested holding a 5K run/walk that same weekend to help raise funds for the cleanup day.”

We are hosting a Town Park Clean-up Day on Sunday, May 24, from 2-4 p.m. at the Chandler Town Park (located on North 4th Street). This Memorial Day weekend, consider volunteering a little bit of your time to help pick up trash and spruce up the park with some fresh paint. Kids can enjoy a sidewalk chalk art contest, with prizes to be awarded. Join us in making a small investment with your time to make a big impact in our park!

Indiana Girl Scout Troop 363 will be planting a flower bed in front of the brick entrance sign, and we will be painting the basketball goal posts and picnic tables. Bottled water will be provided for volunteers and all materials will be supplied.

If you can't stay to help, but still want to join in the efforts, we will be accepting plastic bottle caps and lids to be recycled into park benches for the park. The Town (in conjunction with local Girl Scouts) has already been collecting lids, and only needs 75 pounds to purchase its first bench. Help them reach their goal by saving your lids and dropping them off at the park during our event!Find more details on our Facebook event page.